My goal is to build responsibly, with evidence, humility, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

My path here did not start with real estate, or even with cities. It started with health, wound through food, farming, and a tiny home build site in Wai'anae, Hawai'i, and arrived somewhere wholly unexpected: a mission to build communities that restore and reconnect to the land they call home. Each chapter below weaves together the vision I call Nature Nested Neighborhoods.

Building at the Intersection of Shelter & Dignity

While serving as a Project Manager supporting a National Guard Bureau humanitarian mission in Hawai‘i, I worked alongside local partners to build tiny homes as part of a larger project to create an agricultural-centered village.  The community's leader was Twinkle Borge, known to everyone there simply as Momma. She held the village together through insistence, structure, care for kupunas (elders), and care for the land itself.  It was from her that I first learned the deep meaning of Kuleana: our inborn responsibility, right, and priviledge to steward the land, the community, and family.  Momma had a saying she returned to often, that "kuleana wakens the mana inside," the divine power each of us carries.

That experience reshaped my understanding of housing. The house is much more than shelter; it is the foundation for stability, health, and community restoration.  It is an expression of dignity, the difference between simply existing somewhere and truly belonging there.

Managing logistics, coordinating volunteers, navigating constraints, and delivering under real-world conditions reinforced something critical: vision without thoughtful execution is fragile. It was here that I began to see how land use, materials, policy, and community engagement intersect in tangible, human terms. Project success demanded both compassion and operational discipline, a combination that continues to inform how I approach development today.

Twinkle passed away before our work in the village was complete. I still carry her lesson of kuleana with me, and it lives on, in a different form, in Nature Nested. A responsibility to land, community, and family is not an abstraction to me.  It is the same insistence she modeled every day in Wai'anae, now built into how I am building here.

The vision for Nature Nested emerged from an array of adventures and sparked by a single, unplanned moment. But its discipline has been built over years in military and energy industry careers.

As a Principal Project Manager, I spend my days aligning different people, teams, and priorities toward a shared outcome, a skill that translates directly into the kind of community governance Nature Nested depends on. Earlier in my career as an electrical engineer, I spent years working within the complexity of power systems, learning how energy actually moves, where it fails, and what real resilience requires. That grounding matters because a regenerative neighborhood still needs functioning infrastructure beneath the vision. Idealism must be able to coexist with engineering, not replace it.

More recently, that same curiosity has led me to study nature-based solutions, ancient architecture, and biomimicry, approaches to building that solved many of the problems we are still relearning today. That study already shapes how I think about Nature Nested's physical design.